SHALLCROSS AND YEARDSLEY HALLS. 



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Looking at this window, it is not difficult to picture to oneself 

 what the old hall was like before the modern windows were 

 inserted, and to feel sorry that it was not left in its original 

 state. There is also a small stone window of the same period, 

 of which a sketch is given. 



The Hall, since it ceased to be the family residence many 

 years ago, has been divided into two buildings, but we will 

 attempt to reconstruct the interior as it probably existed about 



Yeardsley Hall. Early stone window. Scale £■ full size 



the beginning of the seventeenth century. Before doing so, 

 however, we must call attention to the unusually huge central 

 chimney breast, which is 7 h feet thick on the ground floor and 

 9 feet on the upper floor, the extra 18 inches being gained 

 by means of a large stone corbel course, which, as shown on 

 the sketch, extends a distance of 10 feet along the entrance 

 corridor. So massive a corbel course is unusual in the interior 

 of a house, for anything of the kind is usually external, as, 



